STEVE JOBS apparently had a strange reason behind his decision to invent the revolutionary iPhone which has undoubtedly transformed the tech industry, Apple insiders have revealed.

Mr Jobs released the first iPhone in 2007. The touchscreen phone has now become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the most popular devices within the technology industry. Forbes even claimed there were 1.5 billion iPad and iPhone users earlier this month. One of the early engineers on the iPhone project told the New York Times how there was an expected motivation behind Mr Jobs’ desire to design a revolutionary new device more than a decade ago.

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Joshua Strickon explained that even as far back as 2003, some Apple engineers were looking into multi touch technology for a tablet.

The engineer continued: “The story was that Steve wanted a device that he could use to read email while on the toilet – that was the extent of the product spec.

“But you couldn’t build a device with enough battery life to take out of the house, and you couldn’t get a chip with enough graphics capability to make it useful.

“We spent a lot of time trying to figure out just what to do.”

Steve Jobs releasing the first iPhone in 2007 (Image: Getty)

Jobs set up Apple in 1976 (Image: Getty)

However, the New York Times noted: “Given the lack of consensus at Apple about what to do with the [multitouch] prototypes, he and his fellow engineers developed, he says, he left the company in 2004, thinking it wasn’t going to do anything with that technology.”

It was not until 2005 when Mr Jobs started to advocate the idea of making a touchscreen phone.

However, Business Insider explained in 2017 how there was a particular reason which pushed Mr Jobs to use the touchscreen technology to make an iPhone.

Scott Forstall, one of the designers who led Apple’s iOS software development, said: “It began because Steve hated this guy at Microsoft.

“Anytime Steve had any interaction with the guy, he’d come back p***** off.”